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Sites where “elon musk” is a top search keyword

One site on record lists “elon musk” among the searches that send it the most visitors, by traffic estimates. It is searched about 4.1M times a month on Google, worldwide (Google Ads, Sept 2026), at about $0.97 a click in search ads: a month of its searches would cost about $4M as search ads. Each site checked on the backlink value checker adds its top five search keywords, so this list grows as sites are checked.

Keyword intelligence

4.1MGoogle monthly search volume−18% since Oct 2025
−29%Last 3 months vs 3 beforefalling
57/100Demand scoremoderate
79/100Keyword difficulty (US)hard
InformationalSearch intentwants to learn
$0.97Google Ads cost per clicktop-of-page bids $0.05–$2.00
1.3MThird-party estimated keyword demandSept 2026
1Sites getting visits from itSept 2026

What the data says

  • Demand is falling: Google searches for “elon musk” fell 18% (5M to 4.1M) from Oct 2025 to Sept 2026; the last three months averaged 4.1M, 29% below the three before.
  • Searches peak in Jun 2026 (9.1M) and are lowest in Apr 2026 (4.1M), a 2.2× swing within the year: time content to be indexed before the peak.
  • The listed site takes about 15.5K visits a month from “elon musk”, 1% of its 1.3M searches (traffic estimates). The other 99% goes to sites not on record here, or ends without a click.
  • At $0.97 a click (Google Ads), the listed sites' 15.5K visits a month from “elon musk” would cost about $15K as search ads. That is what the traffic would cost to buy, not what it earns.
  • The two sources differ about 3 times for Sept 2026: Google Ads counts 4.1M searches, the traffic estimates 1.3M. Read each for its trend, not as an exact count.

1Demand

Search demand, month by month

Google monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide)Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis)

005M1M10M2MOct 2025Jan 2026Apr 2026Jul 2026Sept 2026Google monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Oct 2025: 5MGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Nov 2025: 5MGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Dec 2025: 5MGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Jan 2026: 5MGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Feb 2026: 5MGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Mar 2026: 5MGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Apr 2026: 4.1MGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), May 2026: 4.1MGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Jun 2026: 9.1MGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Jul 2026: 4.1MGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Aug 2026: 4.1MGoogle monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide), Sept 2026: 4.1MThird-party estimated keyword demand (right axis), Sept 2026: 1.3MOct 2025Google monthly search volume5MNov 2025Google monthly search volume5MDec 2025Google monthly search volume5MJan 2026Google monthly search volume5MFeb 2026Google monthly search volume5MMar 2026Google monthly search volume5MApr 2026Google monthly search volume4.1MMay 2026Google monthly search volume4.1MJun 2026Google monthly search volume9.1MJul 2026Google monthly search volume4.1MAug 2026Google monthly search volume4.1MSept 2026Google monthly search volume4.1MThird-party estimated keyword demand1.3M
Every month's figures
Oct 2025Nov 2025Dec 2025Jan 2026Feb 2026Mar 2026Apr 2026May 2026Jun 2026Jul 2026Aug 2026Sept 2026
Google monthly search volume (Google Ads, worldwide)5M5M5M5M5M5M4.1M4.1M9.1M4.1M4.1M4.1M
Third-party estimated keyword demand (right axis)———————————1.3M

Google monthly search volume: Google Ads, worldwide, read 1 Nov 2026. Third-party estimated keyword demand is a separate source, many times apart in size, so it has its own axis at the right: read the two lines for their trends.

2Who gets the traffic

Share of the visits, Sept 2026
SiteShareVisitsAs adsDRLinking sites
jalopnik.com100%15.5K$15K8144.3K

Each site's latest estimate of its visits from this keyword; “As ads”: those visits at its cost per click, what they would cost to buy; DR: Ahrefs Domain Rating; linking sites: sites linking to it (third-party link index).

Where these sites' visitors are
  • United States81%
  • Canada8%
  • Australia2%
  • United Kingdom2%
  • Germany1%
  • Other countries6%

The listed sites' own visitors by country (all their traffic), weighted by each site's visits from this keyword: their audience, not where the keyword is searched.

Phones and computers
  • Phones70%
  • Computers and tablets31%

Page loads of the listed sites by Chrome users (Chrome UX Report), weighted by each site's visits from this keyword: a site's device mix, not the keyword's. No source gives a keyword's device split.

3Ranking competition

79/100Keyword difficulty (US)hard
21/100Ranking easehard
2,275Linking sites per top-ten pageaverage, US

On Google's page:Knowledge panelTop storiesPeople also askX postsVideosPerspectivesCarouselShort videosRelated searchesImages

4Intent and related searches

Informational: wants to learn
The searcher's goal, as a third-party keyword database classifies it (US).

Keywords the same sites get visits from

  • buy car for cat 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
  • carvana 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
  • jalopnik 1 of these sites · 1 site in all
  • uber 1 of these sites · 1 site in all

Keywords the listed sites also get visits from, the most shared first: linked by the same sites' traffic, not by meaning.

5Opportunity

57/100 · Demand score, moderate

How much searching there is and what advertisers pay for it.

Searches1004.1M a month · weight 40%
Year43−18% since Oct 2025 · weight 20%
Momentum21last 3 months −29% on the 3 before · weight 20%
Commercial19$0.97 a click (Google Ads) · weight 20%

21/100 · Ranking ease, hard

How open Google's first page is: 100 minus its difficulty and strength.

Keyword difficulty2179 of 100 (US) · weight 50%

What to do with it

  • A hard first page (ease 21) for moderate demand (57): compare your site's strength with the first page's median Ahrefs DR before committing.
  • The listed sites take 1% of its searches: most of the traffic goes to sites not on record here.

A business score needs your own figures (conversion, deal value) and is not made here. Scores are fixed formulas over the figures shown; they are not Google's.

6Sources

Tiles, findings, scores and actions are worked out from the figures on this page by fixed rules.

SiteReportVisits (est.)Month
jalopnik.comValued15.5KSept 2026

Listed A–Z. A top search keyword is one of the searches that bring a site the most visitors, by estimate. It is not a position in Google, and the order here is not a ranking. Visits (est.): the traffic estimate's own figure for the keyword on that site, which behaves like visits a month, not an amount of money (2026-09-29: it had been shown in dollars). Ad value is what advertisers pay for the keyword — its searches × cost per click — not how hard it is to rank for. This page is kept out of search results until 15 sites share the keyword.

Searches, cost per click and ad value above: Google Ads, worldwide. Sites and their visits: third-party traffic estimates, Sept 2026. The traffic estimates' own searches figure for the keyword is in the section below; the two sources often differ several times over.